Andrew Napolitano

Andrew Napolitano (6 June 1950-) was Judge of the New Jersey Superior Court from 1987 to 1995 and a conservative syndicated columnist and Fox News commentator.

Biography
Andrew Napolitano was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1950, and he was admitted to the bar in 1975 after graduating from Princeton and Notre Dame. In 1987, Governor Thomas Kean appointed him to the Superior Court, serving from 1987 to 1995. He resigned in 1995 to return to private practice, and he served as an adjunct professor at Seton Hall from 1989 to 2000 and as a visiting professor at Brooklyn Law School from 2013 to 2017. He became a syndicated columnist and Fox News legal commentator, and Donald Trump considered naming him a Supreme Court justice, ultimately choosing Brett Kavanaugh instead. Napolitano opposed the Iraq War and overseas military interventions, but he also opposed abortion and had a disdain for Abraham Lincoln, blaming him for starting the American Civil War. In 2019, he warned about Trump's attempts to use presidential power to pass a modified immigration restriction (merit-based immigration), saying that increased presidential power was a threat to democracy.